Top 50 Amazing Facts about Google

1)Google takes on moonshots projects that could change the world for millions of people.

2)Larry Page and Sergey Brin together own 16 percent of its shares, who founded Google while they were Ph.D. Students at Stanford University on September 4, 1998.

3)Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California.

4)In 2013, about 91% of Google's $55.5 billion in revenue came from advertising alone.

5)33% of all searches on Google come from smartphone

6)The Google search technology is called PageRank.

7)Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page, who became CEO of Alphabet

8)Google's search index is more than 100 million gigabytes in size. It would take 100,000 one-terabyte personal drives to contain the same amount of data.

9)The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997,and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998.

10)When a Google employee dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children US$1,000 per month until they turn 19.

11)”Google knows more about you than your mother” these are words quoted by a critic

12)Google has photographed more than five million miles of road for its Street View maps.

13)z.stanford.edu and google.stanford.edu are the names with which Google ran at Stanford School of Engineering which is an attempt to analyze and catalog the world wide web.

14)Google Sky Maps allows you to view stars, constellations, galaxies and planets.

15)Donald Trump was the most Googled person of 2016 in 88 countries, including Mexico, Spain, South Africa and New Zealand.

16)Google can help you decide what to eat.

17)Craig Silverstein currently serves as the director of technology at Google, who is the first employee of Google Inc.’s hired in September 1998.

18)Google has rented in several occasions goats to mow their Mountain View HQ as part of their green initiative.

19)Google hired a camel to create the Street View of a desert.

20)Google has had many logos since its renaming from BackRub.

21)Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.

22)`To Google` is actually a recognised verb in Oxford dictionary. Similarly `Unfriend` is also a recognised verb.

23)Google is used by 57%  american kids as their first word.

24)Google is a super dog-friendly company. It proudly names "company dogs," like Yoshka

25)Google uses a secret web tool called foo.bar to recruit new employees based on what they search for online.

26)Google's first tweet ever was "I'm feeling lucky" written in binary code

27)The First Google Storage Was Made From LEGO bricks.

28)Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools' Day prank

29)Google takes over 200 factors into account before delivering you the best results to any query in a fraction of a second.

30)88 languages can be used in Google home page.

31)There are about 40k Google searches per second

32)Google beats Facebook: it's the world's most visited website.

33)Larry Page and Sergey Brin made the first Google Doodle in August 1998.

34)Google operates 70 offices in more than 40 countries.

35)Google has a pet T-rex, named Stan, which lives at their California headquarters.

36)Google released it first android phone on January 5,2010, with the name Nexus One.

37)Go to Google Mars. You can see a map of Mars. Cool

38)On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.

39)Type any number in the search bar and Google will spell it out for you.

40)Google's Artificial-Intelligence Bot says the purpose of living is 'to live forever'

41)Google Has a Company Dinosaur

42)The domain GoogleSucks.com is owned by Google.

43)Google's First Ever "Company Snack" Was Swedish Fish

44)Google.com/Weddings is a little known free service to plan your wedding.

45)Google's headquarter is called "Googleplex". Googolplex is the number equivalent to ten raised to the power of a googol.

46)The CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, was the first female employee at Google, in 1999.

47)You can see underwater sea life, coral reefs and wrecks using Google Maps.

48)In 2013, Google founded Calico, an anti-aging company designed to ultimately "cure" death.

49)In 2015, Google dropped their old motto "Don't Be Evil."

50)Google.com/Mars offers visible imagery view, infrared and elevation views of the planet Mars.

Top 50 Amazing Facts about Birds

1)The oldest bird lived about 150 million years ago.The Oldest Bird was discovered during Jurassic period.The oldest bird was known as an Archaeopteryx

2)A bird's normal body temperature is usually 7-8 degrees hotter than a humans'.

3)A bird's heart beats 400 times per minute while resting

4)It beats up to 1000 beats per minute while flying

5)There are birds (geese, cranes, eagles) that can extract sufficient oxygen from the air at nearly 30,000 feet above sea level.

6)Birds do not have teeth.

7)At least 4,000 species of bird are regular migrants, which is about 40 percent of the total number of birds in the world.

8)Birds can reach great heights as they migrate.

9)The Arctic tern has the longest migration of any bird in the world.

10)City birds use cigarette butts to line their nests in order to drive away parasites.​This is because the nicotine in the cigarettes act as a natural pesticide.

11)Birds are the reason that hot peppers are hot.

12)Birds are last surviving lineage of Dinosaurs

13)Birds are supposed to have complicated and efficient pair of lungs and take up more space than humans or any other mammals.

14)The only known poisonous bird in the world is the hooded pitohui of Papua, New Guinea. The poison is found in its skin and feathers.

15)Scientists group birds into 30 categories.

16)Birds have hollow bones.Hollow bones help them to fly.

17)A bird’s eye takes up about 50 percent of its head; our eyes take up about 5 percent of our head.

18)Most of the birds eat twice their body weight in food every day. It is because the flying takes away lot of their energy.

19)Some bird species are intelligent enough to create and use tools.

20)Approximately 2/3 of all the bird species are found in tropical rain forests.

21)In the United States alone, there are over 40 million pet birds.

22)A bird’s feathers weigh more than its skeleton.

23)Birds have three fingers on each wing. The first, the thumb, supports a small part of the wing called the alula. The second and third fingers support the main flight feathers

24)Lighthouses are dangerous for birds. The beams attract birds, especially in misty conditions, and many are killed when they fly into the glass

25)Birds play a central role in many creation myths.

26)Birds that are raised for meat and eggs (poultry) are the largest source of protein eaten by humans.

27)Birds sense winter is coming by 1) changes in hormones that cause them to put on fat, 2) the changing length of the day, and 3) sensing small changes in air pressure, which is important in predicting weather changes.

28)Birds don’t fall off of a branch when they sleep because their toes automatically clench around the twig they are standing on.

29)The bird with the greatest wingspan of any other bird is the Wandering Albatross at up to 11.8 ft (3.63 m).

30)Approximately 75% of wild birds live for less than a year.

31)In the continental U.S. alone, between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds are killed by cats annually.

32)Birds (Aves), also known as avian dinosaurs.

33)The first classification of birds was developed by Francis Willughby and John Ray in their 1676 volume Ornithologiae

34)Many birds, such as starlings, sing notes too high for humans to hear.

35)The bird that lays the smallest egg in the world is the bee hummingbird. Its egg is just under 0.5" x 0.25" and weighs a mere 0.02 oz.

36)The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska polluted approximately 1,180 miles of coastline and killed up to 100,000 seabirds.

37)Birds have two sexes: either female or male.

38)A green woodpecker can eat as many as 2,000 ants per day.

39)Birds have a very efficient system for diffusing oxygen into the blood;

40)Birds have a ten times greater surface area to gas exchange volume than mammals.

41)There are around 10000 different species of birds worldwide.

42)Scientists believe that birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs.

43)Many birds kept as pets, including doves, parakeets, and lovebirds, enjoy living in pairs for companionship.

44)The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.

45)It is estimated that one third of all bird owners turn on a radio for their pet when they leave the house.

46)The first bird domesticated by humans was the goose.

47)Mockingbirds can imitate many sounds, from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.

48)Kiwi birds are blind, so they hunt by smell.

49)Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes. There is a genetic link between the two.

50)The first chicken came from an egg laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken.  Therefore, the egg came first.

Top 50 Amazing Facts about Charles Macintosh Chemist

1)Charles Macintosh, born on Dec 29,1766  in Glasgow, Scotland

2)Died: 1843 in Dunchattan, Scotland

3)Profession: Chemist, Inventor

4)Macintosh was born in Glasgow, the son of George Macintosh and Mary Moore

5)He  was first employed as a clerk

6)Macintosh married, in 1790, Mary Fisher, daughter of Alexander Fisher a merchant of Glasgow.

7)Charles was prepared with university studies at Glasgow and as a student of Joseph Black at Edinburgh.

8)By the time he was twenty, Charles had opened a plant in Glasgow to produce sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride) and Prussian blue dye.

9)In 1797, he established Scotland’s first alum works at Hurlet, Renfrewshire.

10)He found a source of the alum in waste shale from coal mines. Additional chemical works followed later.

11)His father originally came from the Highlands, moving to Glasgow to set up a factory in Dennistoun in 1777 to manufacture a violet-red dying powder made from lichens (cudbear).

12)Macintosh had a strong interest in chemistry.

13)A yeast factory which Macintosh set up in 1809 failed because of opposition from London brewers.

14)Oct. 12 in 1823, Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh sold the first raincoat. In Great Britain, the garment is still called a “Mac”

15)His patent, No. 4,804, described how to “manufacture for rendering the texture of hemp, flax, wool, cotton, silk, and also leather, paper and other substances impervious to water and air.”

16)He joined two sheets of fabric together with this solution, allowed them to dry, and discovered that the new material could not be penetrated by water - the first rainproof cloth!

17)Together with chemist George Hancock, Macintosh solved many of the problems involved in reliably producing waterproofed sheets and coats.

18)The material was first introduced in 1824 as Mackintosh (with an additional "k").

19)Mackintosh raincoats are named after him.Mackintosh raincoats are still made today.

20)Macintosh founded his own waterproofing company in Glasgow in 1834.

21)The factory is now owned by the Dunlop Rubber Company

22)He invented a revolutionary bleaching powder , devised a way of using carbon gases to convert malleable iron to steel by a short-cut method, and worked out a hot-blast process with James Neilson to produce high quality cast iron.

23)Macintosh was also associated with David Dale in the making of turkey-red dyeing in Scotland, and established the first Scottish alum (a double sulphate of aluminium and potassium) works.

24)The first raincoats smelled bad, stiffened in cold weather, and gummed up in hot weather, but farmers, fishermen, and firemen loved them.

25)He was called Father of Raincoat

26)Macintosh was honored for his contributions to chemistry by his election in 1823 as a fellow of the Royal Society.

27)His keen interest in chemistry made him resign from his day job and completely immerse into the study and manufacture of chemicals.

28)He discovered a fast method of using carbon gases to convert iron to steel.

29)His experiments with one of the by-products of tar, naphtha, led to his invention of waterproof fabrics, the essence of his patent being the cementing of two thicknesses of cloth together with natural (India) rubber, the rubber being made soluble by the action of the naphtha.

30)He devoted all his spare time to science, particularly chemistry, and before he was twenty resigned his clerkship to take up the manufacture of chemicals.

31)December 29 2016 Google celebrate Charles Macintosh`s 250th Birthday with raining doodle

32)Charles Macintosh passed away in 1843 at Dunchattan, Scotland and was buried in the churchyard of Glasgow Cathedral.

33)He is buried with his parents in the ground of his great grandfather, John Anderson of Douhill, Lord Provost of Glasgow.

34)His name is added to the impressive 17th century monument.

35)The mackintosh, as it came to be known, was greatly improved when vulcanized rubber, which resisted temperature changes, became available in 1839.

36)A secondary memorial also exists (in polished red granite, dating from the late 19th century) slightly to the north, where Charles is again mentioned on the grave of his son George.

37)He made a series of important contributions to the field of industrial chemistry in the early 1800s

38)Apart from India, the google doodle birthday celebration was up in US, Canada and parts of Europe and Africa.

39)He was educated at the grammar school at Glasgow, and afterwards at a school at Catterick Bridge, Yorkshire.

40)Macintosh's connection with the manufacture of india-rubber was almost accidental, and has somewhat obscured his fame as a chemist.

41)Tired of the life of a clerk, he embarked before he was twenty years of age in the manufacture of sal ammoniac

42)In 1786 he introduced from Holland the manufacture of sugar of lead, and about the same time he commenced making acetate of alumina.

43)Macintosh retired from the concern in 1814.

44). In 1820 he had built a machine (his ‘pickle’) to tear up scrap rubber in the hope that the freshly torn surfaces would fuse together to give a uniform block which could then be re-used.

45)In 1843, when Charles died, his son George joined the board but after a couple of years he left and there was no Macintosh connection with the company after that.

46)Macintosh & Co at the Great Exhibition of 1851 set it on the road to financial security.

47)In 1818, while analysing the by-products of a works making coal gas, he discovered dissolved indiarubber.

48)He was a brilliant chemist with achievements in many different fields.

49) Macintosh’s original idea is still evident in today’s cutting-edge waterproof fabrics.

50)1980’s: The Mackintosh brand begins to collaborate with leading fashion houses including Hermes and Celine.

Top 50 Amazing Facts about New Year

Most New Year's traditions are believed to ensure good luck for the coming year. Many parts of the United States observe the tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day for good luck.New Year’s Day is a holiday celebrated all over the world with different customs and rituals


1)New Year's is approaching, a time when millions of people will celebrate with food, new resolutions or a even kiss as the clock strikes 12.

2)The first New Year’s celebration dates back 4,000 years.

3)December 31, 2016 and January 1, 2017 - New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are on a Saturday and Sunday.

4)Forty-five percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions.

5)The top three places to celebrate New Year’s Eve are Las Vegas, Disney World and of course, New York City.

6)The earliest known New Year celebrations were in Mesopotamia and date back to 2000 B.C

7)The early Romans used March 1 as New Year's Day. Other cultures used the autumn equinox or the winter solstice to mark the new year.

8)Be sure to eat leafy greens on New Year’s.

9)Jewish New Year is called Rosh Hashanah. Apples and honey are traditionally eaten.

10)1582 - The Gregorian calendar, which marks January 1 as the new year, is adopted by the Roman Catholic Church.

11)Many people ring in New Year’s by popping open a bottle of champagne.

12)Time Square New Year's Eve Ball was first dropped in 1907 after there was a fireworks ban.

13)January is named after Janus, the god with two faces, one looking forward and one looking backward.

14)In Italy, people wear red underwear on New Year’s Day to bring good luck all year long.

15)New Year's is the time when many people traditionally make resolutions to break bad habits or start good ones.

16)Using a baby to signify the New Year began in ancient Greece around 600 B.C.

17)The date for Chinese New Year changes each year. It always falls between January 21 and February 20, determined by the Chinese lunar calendar.

18)About 1 million people gather in New York City’s Times Square to watch the ball drop.

19)Ancient Persians gave New Year's gifts of eggs, which symbolized productiveness.

20)"Auld Lang Syne" is traditionally sung at midnight on New Year's Eve.The words auld lang syne mean "times gone by".

21)The first rooftop celebration atop One Times Square, a fireworks display, took place in 1904 and was produced by The New York Times to inaugurate their new headquarters in Times Square and celebrate the renaming of Longacre Square to Times Square.

22)The original New Year's Eve Ball weighed 700 pounds and was five feet in diameter. It was made of iron and wood and was decorated with 100 25-watt light bulbs.

23)Instead of lowering a giant ball of lights on New Year’s Eve, Brasstown, North Carolina lowers a possum. It’s known as “The Possum Drop”

24)Russians celebrate the New Year twice, once on January 1st and then again on January 14th.

25)November 11, 2008 - A "new" New Years Eve ball is introduced. The ball is a geodesic sphere, 12 feet in diameter and weighing 11,875 pounds.

26)Chinese New Year is celebrated the second full moon after the winter solstice.

27)In Thailand, they celebrate their traditional New Year’s Day with a state sponsored multiple day water fight.

28)A kiss at the stroke of midnight signifies the purification into the New Year, and making deafening noise is said to drive away evil spirits.

29)Every Chinese New Year starts a new animal's zodiac year.

30)In Sicily, Lasagna is served on New Year’s Day, because any other noodle served is said to bring bad luck.

31)In Spain and Peru,they eat 12 grapes to bring good luck in the 12 months ahead. However, in Peru they eat a 13thgrape to insure their good luck.

32)The Roman senate declared January 1 as the New Year in 153 BC.

33)Noisemaking and fireworks on New Year's Eve is believed to have originated in ancient times, when noise and fire were thought to dispel evil spirits and bring good luck.

34)Since New Year’s Eve 2008, the city of Mobile, Alabama raises a 12 foot tall lighted mechanical Moon Pie to celebrate the coming of the New Year.

35)Many parts of the U.S. celebrate New Year by consuming black-eyed peas and other legumes, as it has been considered good luck in many cultures.

36)There is a music festival every New Year’s eve in the Antarctic called ‘icestock’

37)Many cultures believe that anything given or taken on New Year, in the shape of a ring is good luck, because it symbolizes "coming full circle".

38)There are only 14 possible calendars. In 2014, you can re-use calendars from these years: 2003, 1997, 1986, 1975, 1969, 1958, 1947, 1941, 1930, and 1919.

39)Babies born on New Year's Day are commonly called New Year babies. Hospitals, such as the Dyersburg Regional Medical Center in the US, give out prizes to the first baby born in that hospital in the new year.

40)The Reykjavik (capital of Iceland) fireworks display on New Year’s Eve is one of the largest in the world, and most fireworks sales fund rescue operations in the country

41)After the French revolution, France briefly used a new calendar based on a decimal system; 10 days a week, 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute, and starting at Year 1.

42)Christians in India celebrate January 1 as the New Year according to the Gregorian calendar.

43)New Year’s Eve has a special name in Belgium. It is known as Sint Sylvester Vooranvond.

44)Until 2006, the Space Shuttle never flew on New Year’s day or eve because its computers couldn’t handle a year rollover.

45)In European countries, the New Year is greeted with private fireworks.

46)Some people wear adult diapers while celebrating New Year at Time Square due to the lack of toilets.

47)Japanese eat long noodles on New Year. Long noodles signify long life.

48)Ethiopia has 13 months. Their current year is still 2006 and they celebrate New Years on September 11.

49)The most common New Year resolutions include ‘quit smoking’, ‘lose weight’, ‘stay healthy and fit’, ‘save more money’ and ‘get (more) organized’.

50)America has another pretty popular New Year tradition, which is known as the Rose Bowl.

Top 50 Amazing Facts about Time

Time is one thing that is found in abundance yet everyone has shortage of it.

The key to find plenty of time is its proper management. It is a very complex thing to manage yet can be done simply by just being punctual.

Time is only one person which doesn't care about how rich or poor u are, what is your religion or in which country u live in, it is equal to all.


1)Philosophically speaking Time never stops for anyone!

2)For Newton time was absolute, with Einstein time became more flexible and relative in scope.

3)The sun you can see out of the window is 8 minutes and 20 seconds old. The light from our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4 years old.

4)If you’re over 45, the world population has doubled in your lifetime

5)Due to tidal friction from the sun and moon, the solar day is lengthening by 1.7 milliseconds each century as the Earth’s rotation slows down.

6)Time Is The Fourth Dimension

7) The smallest standard scientific measure of time is the “Planck time”. It takes you about five hundred and fifty thousand trillion trillion trillion Planck times to blink once, quickly.

8)The most accurate clock ever built is the strontium clock, which is accurate to within a second over 15 billion years.

9)The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes

10)he longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds

11)cats spend 66% of their life asleep

12)Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day

13)All the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes

14)Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute

15)Elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period

16)10 years is known as a decade, 100 years is known as a century and 1000 years is known as a millennium.

17)A 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories

18)A hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute

19)Scientists believe the moon was used as a form of calendar as far back as 6000 years ago.

20)An average person will spend 25 years asleep

21)There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year

22)Count the seconds between seeing a flash and hearing thunder. Three seconds' delay means the lightning strike is 0.6 miles away.

23)Beans, peas and tomatoes are said to grow best if planted in the second week after the new moon.

24)All of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20

25)The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes

26)Every two minutes, we take as many photos as all of humanity took during the 1800s.

27)There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year

28)A sundial is a tool that uses the position of the Sun to measure time, typically involving a shadow cast across a marked surface.

29)Einstein slept 10 hours a night

30)There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day.

31)Theories related to time have been put forward by famous scientists such as Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

32)Gorillas sleep 14 hours a day

33)If Earth were compressed into 24 hours then the first humans would appear just 40 seconds before midnight.

34)Normal years have 365 days but a Leap year has 366.

35)The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days

36)If you wanted to measure time you could use a watch, clock, hourglass or even a sundial.

37)Milliseconds, microseconds and nanoseconds are examples of very small units of time.

38)Theories related to time have been put forward by famous scientists such as Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

39)A nanosecond is one billionth of a second... a long time compared to the femtosecond, the at to second and the shortest possible unit of time - known as Planck time.

40)The Julian calendar assumed a year is exactly 365.25 days - about 10 and three quarter minutes too long.

41)Worldwide, the median number of paid vacation time available to workers is under 25 days a year. Collectively, workers leave about 20 percent of this time off unused.

42)The Babylonians measured one day from sunrise to sunset.

43)For hundreds of years, people used burning candles, dripping water – known as water clocks — or sifting sand to tell time’s passage. People still use sand clocks or hourglasses to keep time.

44)Wristwatches were very popular for women for hundreds of years, while men carried pocket watches.

45)In the 14th century, Europeans developed basic clocks with springs and weights. These clocks sounded a bell every hour. Later, clock makers developed the hour and minute hands. These clocks were not very accurate.

46)Like length, weight or height have units Time also has units and those are years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds.

47)There is a way of measuring time in months, weeks or days and that is called a calendar.

48)Some people can even use the night sky as their clocks!

49)In windy areas it is the wind that changes its direction or stops blowing at similar times during a day. In such places the wind can be used as the clock!

50)The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.

Top 50 Amazing Facts about Colors

Colors command a mysterious effect on our psychology. It changes our mood even before we realize it.

The psychology of colors is a strong motivator in our selection of products.

1)Most of the school buses are in color yellow because Yellow gets our attention faster than any other color. People notice yellow objects first.

2)Lateral peripheral vision for detecting yellows is 1.24 times greater than for red.

3)Many experts also point out that colors such as yellow or greenish-yellow are more visible to the human eye under dimmer conditions compared to red.

4)There are primary(red, yellow and blue), secondary(combination of any two primary colors) and tertiary colors (combination of three colors).

5)When white value is added more to a color then it is called tint.

6)When more black value is added to a color then it us called shade.

7)Earthy colors are also called neutral colors because they are not to bright and shiny.

8)In the year 1918, pink was the colour for boys because it was a stronger colour while the delicate blue was reserved for girls.

9)Bulls hate red” is a total mythRed, orange, yellow colors fall under the category of warm colors whereas blue, free, purple are collectively called cool colors.

10)Hue is the name of color itself.

11)One color color scheme is called monochromatic colors. It is obtained by adding dark or light values.

12)Saturation is the amount of white, black or grey ie. the range of color neutral to brilliant.

13)When almost same colors are used in a painting each aside to other, then these are called analogous colors.

14)Men and women see the color red very differently.

15)Red is the first color a baby sees.

16)Light blue was first recorded as a colour term in English in 1915.

17)Bright Colors Will Make You Smarter, Happier

18)Blue was traditionally associated with pain in China.

19)Red color can hurt your performance on exams.

20)Mosquitoes love blue

21)Pink is the palliative color. Apparently, it suppresses anger and anxiety due to its calming effect.

22)Colors are responsible for 62-90% of our first impressions of one another.

23)Blue is the most common favorite color with purple being a distant second

24)A whopping forty percent of people worldwide would choose blue, with purple-lovers lagging way behind at fourteen percent.

25)Yellow and Orange make you hungry.

26)“Bulls hate red” is a total myth.

27)Green is the colour of life. which then represents photosynthesis in plants

28)Chromophobia, also known as chromatophobia is a persistent, irrational fear of colors.

29)In the UK, a blue ribbon can be the symbol of testicular cancer awareness.

30)Purple, or specifically Tyrian purple, made from sea snails, was in ancient times  a symbol of royalty and luxury.

31)The more generic purple was one of the first colours to be used in prehistoric art, and this was about 25,ooo years ago.

32)Purple is positively associated with royalty, magic, mystery and piety.When combined with pink, it is associated with eroticism and seduction.

33)Blue is a cool colour, it’s the colour of the sky and sea. It symbolises stability, loyalty, confidence, intelligence and peace.

34)Dark green can appeal to upper socio economic groups.

35)Early use of blue paint was so highly prized that laws existed as to what artists were allowed to paint blue. Jesus and Mary’s robes were usually the only accepted uses of the precious color.

36)Red light is soothing for chickens. It helps them to calm down, sleep better, and avoid cannibalism and pecking problems.

37)A cup of coffee tastes delicious when served in a brown cup.

38)Astronomers use colors to identify the stars. If a star appears blue in color, the bigger it is. If the star appears yellowish, the smaller it is.

39)The word Colors also spelled as Colours is derived from a Latin word ‘COLOS’ which means ‘a cover’.

40)The color red is linked with X chromosomes. Women can identify various shades of red than men.

41)Orange is the color of happiness. Also, orange is considered an auspicious color.

42)Color is also related to scent. A 2014 cross-cultural study observed that the fruity odor tended to be associated with pink and red colors, while the musty odor was more associated with browns and oranges.

43)The Sun is actually white. When viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears in its true color of white.

44)black is absence of color and white is a mixture of all colors.

45)In ancient times, orange color is regarded as the color of melted gold, a sign that brings wealth and prosperity.

46)White was the color most often named for honesty.

47)Night vision goggles use green phosphor because the human eye can differentiate more shades of green than any other color, allowing for greater differentiation of objects in the picture

48)Chedder cheese is only orange because they dye it. Originally, the color of cheese changed with season due to the cow’s diet.

49)Pink contain the properties to soothe the nerves and reduce stress. Also, it enhances the mood.

50)Green, although not a primary color is the color of the brain. Without the green color, it is impossible to process the light signals that come from external space.

Top 50 amazing facts about Ocean

1)Around 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by oceans.

2)There's up to US$60 billion in sunken treasure sitting at the bottom of the world's oceans.

3)The worlds oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold.

4)Earth's oceans:Arctic,Atlantic,Indian,Pacific,Southern

5)Deepest point: 36,198 feet (11,033 m) in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific.

6)Area: about 140 million square miles (362 million sq km), or nearly 71% of the Earth's surface.

7)More than 97% of all our planet's water is contained in the ocean

8)Average Depth: 12,200 feet (3,720 m).

9)More than 3.5 billion people depend on the ocean for their primary source of food.

10)During winter the Arctic Ocean is almost completely covered in sea ice.

11)The world’s oceans contain enough water to fill a cube with edges over 1000 kilometres (621 miles) in length.

12)The longest continuous mountain chain in the earth resides in the ocean at more than 40,000 miles long.

13)While some disagree on whether it is an ocean or just part of larger oceans, the Southern Ocean includes the area of water that encircles Antarctica.

14)Amelia Earhart became the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.

15)The average temperature of the oceans is 2ºC, about 39ºF

16)Over the past decade, an average of 600,000 barrels of oil a year has been accidentally spilled from ships

17)90% of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans.

18)Jellyfish are the ocean's most efficient swimmers, consuming 48% less oxygen than any other swimming animal.

19)The blue whale, the largest animal on our planet ever (exceeding the size of the greatest dinosaurs) still lives in the ocean; it's heart is the size of a Volkswagen

20)The largest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean, it covers around 30% of the Earth’s surface.

21)The Bermuda Triangle is located in the Atlantic Ocean, check out our Bermuda Triangle mystery facts.

22)The top ten feet of the ocean holds as much heat as the entire atmosphere.

23)Europe and Africa are only separated by 14.3 km (8.9 mi) of ocean and there are talks of creating the longest bridge ever.

24)The color blue is least absorbed by seawater; the same shade of blue is most absorbed by microscopic plants, called phytoplankton, drifting in seawater

25)Oil is one of the ocean's  greatest resources.

26)Ocean has underwater mountain ranges which  are 20 times more in length than the himalayan mountain range.

27)The Pacific Ocean is surrounded by the Pacific Ring of Fire, a large number of active volcanoes.

28)The world's largest underwater volcano, Tamu Massif, is the size of New Mexico.

29)Underwater lake which contain species only lives in it.

30)Sunlight goes only 1000 metre deep while the average depth of the ocean is about 4000 metre (4 km).

31)29,000 rubber ducks were lost at sea in 1992, and are still being found, revolutionising our knowledge of ocean science.

32)The third largest ocean on Earth is the Indian Ocean, it covers around 14% of the Earth’s surface.

33)A man called Harold Hackett has put over 4800 messages in bottles into the ocean and has gotten 3000 responses back.

34)The Pacific Ocean contains around 25000 different islands, many more than are found in Earth’s other oceans.

35)Almost all living creature lives underwater have its own light source because of darkness.

36)70% of the oxygen we breathe are produced by the oceans.

37)14 billion pounds (6B Kg.) of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year. Most of it is plastic.

38)The deep sea is the largest museum on Earth: There are more artifacts and remnants of history in the ocean than in all of the world’s museums, combined.

39)100% of the earth's ocean floor has been mapped to a maximum resolution of around 5km.

40)We have only explored less than 5 percent of the Earth’s oceans. In fact, we have better maps of Mars than we do of the ocean floor .

41)The Atlantic Ocean’s name refers to Atlas of Greek mythology.

42)The Bermuda Triangle has as many ship and plane disappearances as any other region of the ocean.

43)If we could capture just 0.1% of the ocean's kinetic energy caused by tides, we could satisfy the current global energy demand 5 times over.

44)There's an ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans: they are 30% more acidic than in 1751.

45)Australia uses the motion of the ocean to generate zero-emission electricity and desalinate water simultaneously.

46)There's a "sea organ" built on the coast of Croatia that plays music like an organ when waves crash in and out of it.

47)There is a reservoir of water 3 times the volume of all the oceans deep beneath the Earth's surface.

48)The most remote point in the oceans is called Point Nemo

49)A soup of plastic pollution has been found at the centre of all the world's major gyres — in the South Pacific, the North and South Atlantic and in the Indian Ocean.

50) Oceans hold around 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere